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Blair is special ... but she doesn't know it

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 29, 2000

"I remember skating around with one of the guys on the [Olympic] team and asking who's that and pointing to different people out there. And he says that would be Karen Kania [of East Germany] and you will be skating against her. And I thought, That was a girl? She's as big as some of the guys on our team. I've got to compete against that?" says Bonnie Blair on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Bonnie Blair, who was the best U.S. speedskater ever and the first American woman to win five Olymp ...

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